Sliding board



July 1, 1958 F. F. FOSS sunmc BOARD Filed May 17, 1956 Fred F. FossINVENTOR. I BY an! I :6? Amy 2,341,395 Fatented July 1, 1958 ticSLliDING EEOARD Fred i Foss, Twin Fails, Idaho Application May 17, 1956,Serial No. 585, 587

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resistant material such as plastic, laminated plastics or other suitablematerial.

A further important object of the present invention is to provide aslide or chute which is durable and capable of longer services,constructed of a single piece thereby providing no separate parts tobreak, wear or corrode, easy to assemble and extremely inexpensive tomanufacture.

Other objects of the present invention will reside in its simplicity ofconstruction and adaptation for use with various types of supportingframe structures.

These together with other objects and advantages which will becomesubsequently apparent reside in the details of construction andoperation as more fully hereinafter described and claimed, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawing forming a part hereof, whereinlike numerals refer to like parts throughout, and in which:

Figure l is an exploded group perspective view illustrating the slidingchute of the present invention in association with a supporting framestructure;

Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view taken along the center of thesliding board illustrating the relationship of the chute to thesupporting frame; and

Figure 3 is a transverse, vertical sectional view taken substantiallyupon a plane passing along section line 3-3 of Figure 1 illustrating thestructural details of the chute.

Referring now specifically to the drawings, the numeral 19 generallydesignates the sliding board or chute of the present invention formounting upon a supporting frame generally designated by the numeral 12.

The supporting frame 12 includes a pair of side rail members 14 whichhave depending V-shaped legs 16 formed on one end thereof with the freeends of the legs 16 being interconnected by a transverse member 18. Theother end of the side rails 14 is connected to vertical supportingmembers 26 having transverse members 22 disposed therebetween invertically spaced relation thereby forming a ladder with the upper endsof the vertical members 2% terminating in forwardly curved hand rails 2and the lower ends of the vertical members 20 having a transverselyelongated base member 26 having brace means 28 extending upwardly andinwardly inclined from the outer ends of the transverse member 26 to thevertical members 21) thereby forming a support for one end of the framerails 14 for retaining the same in elevated position.

The chute 14] includes an elongated bedway 30 which forms a loadsupporting portion and which has a slightly concavely curved uppersurface so that children sliding downwardly on the chute 10 will bedisposed substantially in the center thereof.

The outer edges of the bedway 39 are provided with inverted U-shapedside guide rails 32 which terminate in outwardly flared and roundededges 34. The undersurface of the side guide rails 32 forms a downwardlyopening channel 36 with the inner and outer surface of the guide rail 32being substantially cylindrical in crosssectional shape whereby thechannel 36 will frictionally grip the cylindrical pipe side rails 14 ofthe frame 12.

The opposite end of the bedway 30 is provided with depending terminalends 38 having an outwardly flared free edge iii for engagement over thetransverse member 18 as well as the uppermost transverse member 22thereby positively positioning the chute 10 on the supporting frame 12with the channel 36 frictionally engaging the side rails 34 forretaining the chute it on the supporting frame 12.

It will be understood that other types of supporting ladders may beemployed such as a swing or the like whereby the rails 14 and thetransverse member 18 as Well as the transverse member 22 will form arigid support for the one piece chute it) which is self n'gidifying dueto the concavity of the bedway 30 and the cylindrical construction ofthe guide rails 32 and the chute It may be constructed of any suitableplastic or laminated plastic material or certain types of metal materialconstructed in accordance with well known manufacturing proceduresthereby assuring a minimum manufacturing cost and eliminating allassembly problems and possible breakage, loss or damage to variousassembly elements which is normally encountered when assembling articlesof this nature.

The foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles ofthe invention. Further, since numerous modifications and changes willreadily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limitthe invention to the exact construction and operation shown anddescribed, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalentsmay be resorted to, falling within the scope of the invention asclaimed.

What is claimed as new is as follows:

1. A playground sliding board comprising a supporting frame of one-piececonstruction including a pair of inclined side frame rails havingdownwardly extending V-shaped legs at the lower end thereof, aninterconnecting transverse member between the ends of said legs, saidside frame rails having elongated downwardly extending legs at the upperend thereof for supporting the side frame rails in inclined position, aplurality of transverse vertically spaced members interconnecting theelongated legs, a chute of one-piece construction mounted on said frame,said chute including a load supporting portion and a pair of side guiderails, said guide rails being generally U-shaped and inverted forforming downwardly opening channels for receiving said side frame rails,said load supporting portion having downwardly curved ends forgrippingly engaging the remote edges of the transverse member betweenthe ends of the V-shaped legs and the upper of the transverse membersbetween the elongated legs, each of said side guide rails on the chuteterminating in outwardly flared edges, said frame rails being generallycylindrical in shape with the downwardly opening guide railsfrictionally gripping said side frame rails, said chute being of onepiece construction of corrosive resistant material, said load supportingportion of the chute being curved transversely in a concave manner forguiding the movement of children thereon and rigidifying the chute.

2. A sliding board construction comprising a supporting frame, and achute mounted on said frame, said frame including a pair of spacedparallel inclined side rails, means supporting the upper ends of said.side rails, said supporting means including a transverse rail member,each supporting bedway, an upstanding side member on each side of saidbedway, each side member being an inverted U-shaped member defining adownwardly opening channel for grippingly engaging the side rails of theframe, each end of the bedway being curved downwardly for grippinglyengaging outer surfaces of the transverse rail of said'side railsincluding a downwardly extending V-shaped leg on the lower end thereof,said V-shaped leg having one leg portion continuous with a frame railand the, apex thereof adapted to engage a supporting surface, the otherleg portion of the V-shaped leg extending in diverging relation to thefirst mentioned leg portion, a transverse member interconnecting therouter ends of the V-shaped legs, said chute including an elongated loadmembers. r

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